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Definition of pass the buck
pass the buck
verb
- to push responsibility onto someone else.
Last edited on Aug 11 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 11 2009.
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Other terms relating to 'buck': | |
| Definitions include: return on one's money spent. | |
| Definitions include: a large amount of money. | |
| Definitions include: unattractive. | |
| Definitions include: originated when people in the tri state area would get cut in the face, usually by gang members. | |
| Definitions include: one of many made up "sex moves" that involve physical abuse of women. | |
| Definitions include: completely naked. | |
| Definitions include: to masturbate. | |
| Definitions include: to cheer up. | |
| Definitions include: uncontrollable, uncivilized; "crazy". | |
| Definitions include: to feel great. | |
| Definitions include: to feel good. | |
| Definitions include: to get crazy, go wild. | |
| Definitions include: to get hit with a thrown object. | |
| Definitions include: of a person, in a particular sexual position. | |
| Definitions include: an invitation to let something proceed, as when bull-riding and requesting the gate be opened. | |
Other terms relating to 'pass': | |
| Definitions include: to attempt to elicit romance or sex; "hit on". | |
| Definitions include: a promiscuous female. | |
| Definitions include: to be asleep, often (but not always) in a place other than one's own bed. | |
| Definitions include: to flatulate. | |
| Definitions include: to be adequate. | |
| Definitions include: to fall asleep, often (but not always) in a place other than one's own bed. | |
| Definitions include: to turn responsibility over to. | |
| Definitions include: To fart or flatulate. | |
| Definitions include: to pass something graded (e.g. a test, a course) with excellent grades. | |
| Definitions include: a weak throw. | |
Other terms relating to 'the': | |
| Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone. | |
| Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving. | |
| Definitions include: interrogation. | |
| Definitions include: extremely intoxicated | |
| Definitions include: information. | |
| Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting. | |
| Definitions include: a good estimate. | |
| Definitions include: a secret advantage. | |
| Definitions include: inclusive. | |
| Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse. | |
| Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing. | |
| Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular. | |
| Definitions include: of a male, to urinate. | |
| Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them | |
| Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner. | |
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